To:A. S. YENUKIDZE

Written:Written on February 13, 1922Published:First published in 1959 inLenin Miscellany XXXVI.

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      Progress Publishers,1976,

      Moscow,Volume 45,

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ComradeYenukidze:

Fromtalks and reports here in Moscow, I conclude that
there is something like slackness in the Presidium of the
All-Russia C.E.C. and its work. This is not surprising,
because all its members are loaded with 20 jobs, as is the
practice in our
“Oblomov”[1]republic.

Thistends to strengthen the influence of men like Larin.
He is a good fellow—as poet, as journalist, as lecturer. But
we are fools to appoint him to legislative work, thereby
spoiling andruiningboth him and the job.

ForChrist’s sake, keep a stricter watch over him. Keep
Larin in check. If he has already got somewhere, do not
believe any of his plans or projects—do not let any pass
without a triple check-up.

Seethat there is not the usual chaos, when efforts are
made to get something through the Presidium of the
All-Russia C.E.C. (by means of half-truths) in circumvention
of the C.P.C. and the State Planning Commission.

Keepboth your eyes peeled, and inform me (or Stalin
with Kamenev)in good time.

Twoother points:

1)Stalin’sflat. Well, when? What red tape!

2)Lalayants.How is he? If he is going to Siberia, I
must give him a letter and arrange a place for him in the
car through Sklyansky and Fomin.

Regards,Yours,Lenin

P.S.I have just sent you a paper about flats for
Strumilin and Ramzin. Please do your Lest about this, get it
done, and write
me.[2]

Yours,Lenin

[1]Thesluggish hero of A. I. Goncharov’s novel of the same name.—Ed.

[2]to go and fetch his family at the end of March (after the Party
Congress). Yenukidze also asked Lenin to see him about the work
of the Presidium of the All-Russia C.E.C. Yenukidze later
reported that he had written to V. V. Fomin at the People’s
Commissariat for Railways about carriage arrangements for
Lalayants.

Onthe first page of Yenukidze’s letter, Lenin wrote: “To
Fotieva p. 3”, and on the third page—“check up fulfilment of § 3”,
in which he underscored with a double line the words “about
flats for Strumilin and Ramzin” (Central Party Archives of the
Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the C.P.S.U. Central
Committee),